pigscantfly

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by pigscantfly 2y ago
Honestly probably just literary license -- this author seems to employ pretty florid prose. I'd say it actually sounds more natural to say "towards the west / mot väster" in Swedish since it's more common to use as
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by pigscantfly 2y ago
It converts to lätt svenska (simplified Swedish), which is usually intended for beginners / students and I believe is the point here. The translated text is missing a lot of details, though, yes.
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by pigscantfly 2y ago
The samples your input is batched with on the provider's backend vary between calls and sparse mixture of experts routing when implemented for efficient utilization induces competition among tokens with either encouraged or enforced ba
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by pigscantfly 2y ago
This isn't really true unfortunately -- mixture of experts routing seems to suffer from batch non-determinism. No one has stated publicly exactly why this is, but you can easily replicate the behavior yourself or find bug reports &#x2F
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by pigscantfly 2y ago
Absolutely love this project -- great job. Remarkably insightful from just a bit of input -- would love to point this at Twitter profiles. Roast: They know so much about ancient history, it's like they lived through it! Prediction: The
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by pigscantfly 2y ago
Other folks may have more apt examples to share, but I would examine the history of Dacia and also the Sasanian fortification lines both east and west (but especially east) of the Caspian Sea -- both of which separated the empire from nomad
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by pigscantfly 2y ago
The guy who invented psychedelic light painting is still living in SF and giving occasional shows -- have known him for a few years as a neighbor, ran with a pretty interesting crowd in the 60's and 70's. [1] https://bi
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by pigscantfly 2y ago
I think this perspective is belied by the vast over-subscription of free public education in places where it has previously been paid only[1] (at this point, mainly in Africa). It does seem like there is strong evidence that most children a
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by pigscantfly 2y ago
Similarly, it bears striking resemblance to the Swedish 'pojke', which can be colloquially shortened to 'pojk' and also means boy. It's apparently been derived from Finnish within the last millenium, though, so coul
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by pigscantfly 2y ago
The LOCKSS [1] digital preservation threat model (I've been told, there's a whitepaper if curious) considers nuclear first strikes and large solar storms -- they maintain a global network of servers for archiving and preserving ac
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by pigscantfly 2y ago
This is a very real take on where memes 'start' nowadays in the valley.
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by pigscantfly 2y ago
No-fee PO Boxes also cover situations in which USPS doesn't deliver to a house in a rural area (no carrier service, as noted in your source [2]). It's very common in many small towns.
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by pigscantfly 2y ago
Thanks for sharing this -- I read the book maybe a decade ago and largely discounted it as non-replicable pop-sci; this changed my opinion of Kahneman's perspective and rigor (for the better!)
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by pigscantfly 2y ago
It would have gone much better for Google if the Brain team had been permitted to apply their work, but they were repeatedly blocked on stated grounds of AI safety and worries about impacting existing business lines through negative PR. I t
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by pigscantfly 3y ago
Yes, this is one of the top outlets focused on the valley tech scene. It's subscription based, and they are more expensive than most others, which is probably why you haven't seen it posted much.
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by pigscantfly 3y ago
"The Dead Mountaineer's Inn" is a fairly unique sci-fi noir also from the Strugatsky brothers that was my first introduction to their work. It interested me enough that I read all their other books afterwards -- worth checkin
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by pigscantfly 3y ago
I had a foldable e-bike for two months (was great) in SF before it was stolen. Someone saw me ride up to my house and enter the basement entrance where I kept it locked to a pole in a utility closet. Later on, they grabbed a food delivery b
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by pigscantfly 3y ago
Just curious, are there any sources you could share on that? Or is this the kind of intel you need to be in the really, really in-crowd for in order to know what's really going on? [Edit]: Can't reply that deep in the thread, but
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by pigscantfly 3y ago
95% of those people have left Google because the ethics and safety teams prevented them from releasing any products based on their research. We have those ex-Googlers to thank for ChatGPT, Character.ai, Inceptive, ... which you'll noti
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by pigscantfly 3y ago
Hard to pin down precisely, but the tacos are better and more consistent in my opinion than eg. the Grullenses on El Camino in Redwood City and Palo Alto. It's also a bigger spot with murals, nicer seating, full salsa bar, and usually
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by pigscantfly 3y ago
El Grullense Grill (Woodside and Gordon, #2 in TFA) is the taqueria GOAT; I stop there every time I find myself in the south bay around lunch or dinner. My roommate and I ate there 3-4 nights each week in grad school. Amazing public service
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by pigscantfly 4y ago
I'd suggest trying t-SNE [1] instead; you'll be losing almost all of the variance by projecting onto the first two eigenvectors produced by PCA. [1] http://karpathy.github.io/2014/07/02/visualizing-t
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by pigscantfly 4y ago
Linguistic displacement can occur without genetic displacement. This has happened many times in history -- usually when a society's elite are displaced by a linguistically distinct foreign elite and their language is gradually adopted
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by pigscantfly 4y ago
Local area code + 867-5309
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by pigscantfly 4y ago
Absolutely -- if money were no object, what I'd like to do most is go back to school and get a doctorate in archaeology.
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by pigscantfly 4y ago
No, an autoregressive language model is conditioned on all prior states, not the previous one.
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by pigscantfly 4y ago
Practicing civil disobedience against laws you believe unethical is not morally dubious, it's legally dubious. If anything, I'd consider it a display of moral fortitude to prize one's ethics above the potential consequences.
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by pigscantfly 4y ago
Decided to try it out: https://labs.openai.com/s/nHmjLYmVPdDQzUU5DvGT2JgK
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by pigscantfly 4y ago
I've gone shopping at Grocery Outlet (discount West Coast chain) since I was in grad school and couldn't afford anything else. I could use higher quality stores now, but it's kind of fun to work recipes around their ever-chan
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by pigscantfly 4y ago
Then why only ban Juul and not all e-cigarette products? The article points out that the company is no longer the most widely used among children (Juul is now fourth in market share among high-school-aged users), and I can assure you that P

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